The silence following the Architect’s voice was worse than any explosion. It rang in their ears like a countdown, filled with promises of everything they'd fought to avoid.Evryn tightened her grip on the shard. It pulsed again—warm, rhythmic, alive. No longer just code. “He’s not gone,” she whispered. “He’s inside the Nexus core… embedded now like a virus.”Kai stood still beside her, his eyes scanning the crumbling vault. “Then we destroy the core.”“No,” Elaia interjected, rising slowly with her fingers glowing faintly. “If we destroy it, we unravel the reality strings he’s tied together. Too many are connected. We’ll wipe out not just him, but every altered timeline, every hybrid city, every memory anchored by this net.”Evryn nodded slowly, mind racing. “So we don’t destroy it—we rewrite it.”From the shadows ahead, the mechanical clapping grew louder—until a figure stepped forward. Not the Architect… not exactly.It was Evryn.Or rather, a version of her—paler, taller, eyes glow
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